Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-12-16
NO. Al.
NEWS IN GENERAL.
DOMESTIC,

ran aErOunu opposite W n6eluPst W. W.,
aud sunk seven bsrges of the fset Another
feet struck the suaken barscs and sunk three.
No lives lost.
The directors OF the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad e.ectel Mr.. S,mu'l Spencer pre'i-
dent, and his salary, it is understood, was
fixed at s25, 90 Psr annum.
An accident more frightful in its nature
than has occurred for long time, happened
at Waddsli's mines, Pa Ten men were
being lowered dowl the deep shaft to their
work, when the drag became mis-
placed and tho carriage on which
the men were staining jumped
out of the guides. Instantly, John johnson,
son 81 the engineer, and miner named
Mouahsn were hurled from the platform and
sent whirling down the dark depths of the
shaft, a distance of over 400 feet Their
terribly mangla1 remains were subsequently,
rescued and carried to the top The terrific
concu sion also broke the legs Of William
Boyd ead John PLIGHT. miner from the
Hazeiton region, had his back broken. The
other six men escaped with comparatively
slight injuries.
Two freight trains oa the Pittshurg &
Lake Erie railroad colided near PittSbIrg,
Pa. Eight cars and an engine were COM
platoly demolshsl /. The loss was $4,000.
Rev. DR.. Joseph Parker of London carried
away $500 as the profits Of his lecture tour.
Nearly everybody in the village of Penn
Yam, \. Y, has been jubilant because OF the
finding there OF ell abundant vein Of natural
gas.
A number of young women Of Hammond,
IND. cl i'm to have been glanlered by Editor
Towle ot the Echo Seven OF the girls met
Towle III the street, and, throwing red pep
per in his tnce, three attacked him with COW
hidns Tho editor begged for mercy and
then tire itened to shoot but the girls only
Piled their whips the faster. Towle finally es-
caped.
The officials in tho Chicago county Jail orc
in almost frenzy of fear and uncertainty
| over disclosures regarding the surreptitiouS
| possession OF contraband articles by the pliS-
| oners. The finding OF the bomb in Lingg's
| cell has never been traced to its depth Nei-
ther has the person been discovered who fur
I niShed the several doses of poison taken by
| George Englc. Saturday last a 44-calibrere-
! volver and over 100 cartridges were found in
| the cell of Michael Lynch, who had shot and
| killed Officer William s. HallOran in July
/ losJ 1t wa' learned that the latter
discovery prevented the carrying out of a
well-defined plot to liberate half dozen OF
! the worst criminals III the Jail. lmmedi-
ately OF the finding of the revolver and am
| nunitiOn, Lynch was taken from his cell and
! placed in solitary confinement for over 100
hours, manacled to the cell door and fed on
| anu WdbST. AL uGldliS nave Deen
suppressed by the Jail officials but it is
known that the plan was to arm Lynch and a
number Of the other prisoners and getting
them iuto the lawyers cage on some pre-
tence, have them all make a combined break
for liberty, shooting down the guards il
necessary.
Rev. Charles A. Berry of Wolverhampton,
Eng, has declined the call to the Plymouth
church.
D. L. Moody is to spend month in Louis.
| vile, KY, after the holidays, and will &C
thence to the Pacific coast, where he will re-
main until spring.
DR.. /. S. Kalloch, ex-mayor of San Fran,
cisco, is dead.
Little business is expected from congress,
for the week, hey yond slectiug committee:
and attending to what bills are likely to oc
cur during the week.
A few Italians had a quarrel in Brooklyn
n. Y. Two are in the hospital each carry
ing bullet. The rest slid
Mrs John Jacob Astor's life is despaireC
of.
Twenty steamships were delayed outside
of New York harbor by the fog Of Sunday
18th inst.
A panic was caused by the falling of al
iron pillar during mass in the chapel attached
to the Church of the Immaculate Conception
in New York. The presence of 500 people il
the room made the floor settle, and the pillai
toppled over, injuring four persons quitt
severely.
The house Of Michael Harris, who resille
with his wife and seven children near Yves
sington, Rak., caught fire, and all but Mr.
Harris and one child were burned to death
The Joliet QlL) rolling mills 1000 man
have been shut down.
Judge Brewer of the United States circui
court has issued a decree declaring the Wal
ruff brewery at Lawrence, Kansas, com
mon nuisance, and directing the Unitet
States Marshal to shut it up and abate tn
same. The decree also porpetually enioin
the brewery from manufacturing or sellin;
any Intoxicating liquors This is the frs
brewery that has been declared nuisance
under the prohihtory law Of Kansas, and th
decree is in accordance with the late decision
prohibition question. .
Jennie Smith, school teacher, age! q
of Lamort, Mich, eloped with Alexaude
McGee,a coal black negro. She is the daugh
ter of well-to-do farmer. Last spring tn
negro went to Dakota and thus alayed som
talk in the neighborhood about the two.
is known that they kept up q correspondence
Last week Miss Smith suddenly disappeared
leaving note that she had gone to Dakot
W JIM uuCNeS' ue IcSIO IleJ uei Ill ~
Paul, and it is supposed they were marie
and went TO their Dakota home.
Pauline Schqitzen, 17-Year-old daughter c
n minister near SwarlSvilie, n. Y, ha
eloped with David Ittlejohn, full .bloode
Tuscarora Indian, who made the girl belieY
he was Spaniard Littlejohn is WORT
less fellow. The girls relatives are huntin
for him, and will make things unpleasan
for him If they capture him.
A peculiarly sad case of fortune coming
too late recently occurred in Foxboro Mas
Gaines Carpenter, a native of Maine ,declde
to go to Texas and engage in the business {
raising cattle few months previous to til
breaking out Of the war. Within mont!
he died, leaving q wife and daughter Il
property was all invested in his ranch. anC
owing to the breaking out of the war, tha
could not be sold and his famil
was left penniless. At the clos
Of the war Gen. Sheridan, who bC
came interested in their story, sent ther
North, and they came to Foxboro in extrenI
| poverty. The daughter obtained employ
ment in the straw factory, but the work wa
too much for her strength, and she died froi
over-work, the girls who were employed wit
her paying the funeral expenses that sh
might not fiji paupers grave The mothe
struggled on alone for while, and then sf
was compelled to go to the poorhouse, wher
she died few months ago. Recently partiC
from Texas have been to Foxboro and war
to buy the ranch, which is very valuable, an
had Mrs. Gaines and her daughter lived the
would now be very wealthy
FOREIGN